Sergei Ivanov (Imperial Russian Army)

Sergei Petrovich Ivanov (1772-1814) was a Brigadier-General of the Russian Empire who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. A veteran of the Second Russo-Turkish War (1788-1792), Ivanov served as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars before being promoted to higher rank after service against France and Sweden from 1805 to 1814.

Biography
Sergei Petrovich Ivanov was born in Moscow Guberniya in the city of Moscow in 1772. Ivanov was recruited into a regiment of Musketeers in 1790 during the Russo-Turkish War at the age of eighteen, and Ivanov was promoted to the rank of Corporal after being wounded in the battle of Focsani. Ivanov later advanced in rank while serving against the French in 1799-1800 in Switzerland during the War of the Second Coalition.

Due to his experience in battle, Ivanov was made the colonel of a regiment of Musketeers during the War of the Third Coalition in 1805-1806 and the following War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806-1807, taking part in the fighting in Poland while under the command of General Levin August von Bennigsen.

Ivanov was later transferred to the command of Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov during his wars with the Turks in 1807 and also sent to fight against Sweden in Finland that same year. In 1814, Ivanov's regiment fought under the command of Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly during the invasion of France. At the Battle of Diguin, Ivanov was shot in the neck by a French musketball and killed. His regiment was routed in battle, and they were replenished in the French countryside by fresh Russian troops.